Jhelisa - Galactica Rush (1994 Dorado)

In the lost episode of The X-Files, Fox Mulder has no difficulty linking the late 1960's US government classified genetic project in Houston, TX and a Motown-style story of three girls of the Anderson family who became The Voices Of Acid Jazz after fleeing Texas with men in black breathing down their necks. What else is there to explain the undisputed monopoly of Pamela (D*Note, Incognito), Carleen (The Brand New Heavies, Young Disciples) and Jhelisa Anderson between 1993 and 1997? Keep it in mind while listening to this suspiciously brilliant Cool Breeze-produced acid soul album and keep on believing ;-).

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D*Note - Criminal Justice (1995 Dorado)

Criminal Justice is the second album by Charlie Lexton and Matt Wienevski AKA D*Note and imho their best. Unlike the relaxed acid-jazzy debut Babel (I wish I know where that one is..) Criminal Justice mixes raggamuffin babbling and soulful vocals with broken beats and twisted ambience to create unique atmosphere of drama and suspense. A perfect soundtrack to a life in pre-Blair Britain.

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VA Dorado - The Gold Sessions (1994 Instinct)

Dressed in americanized version of Dorado label design comes this donated disc released by Instinct Records. It's actually a compilation compiled from two compilations (A Compilation and A Compilation /2/) and despite the added "remix" tags all the tracks are the same including the bad original mastering. Suitable for those who currently experience their first encounter with Future Vintage.

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Twilight Circus Sound System - Horsie (1999 M Records)

It's hard to imagine that Ryan Moore AKA Twilight Circus Sound System was once part of The Legendary Pink Dots (cold war apocalyptic poetry meets synths-against-the-wall, for those who don't remember the 80's). It's even harder to imagine that relaxed dub record of such crystalline purity comes from a white guy born in Canada. Hand painted and numbered cover (not the actual picture). Availability: hard to find. Get it now and stay tuned!

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The Dub Funk Association - Spirits Under Pressure (1996 Tanty Records)

The Dub Funk Association were Harrow (Middlesex) based dub massive that released a couple of albums in the mid-90's, Spirits Under Pressure being their 2nd. Their hip hop-scented organic dub style reminds me of the Bristol dub sound circa 1991 which didn't seem to be a goldmine. Otherwise the label wouldn't release this promo with a dirty fax copy of tracklist instead of a decent cover.

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Five-H-T - Neurotransmitter (1995 Hypoxia)

Before we continue the Dorado excursion, there are some quite old requests to fulfill. Our reader RocksOff asked for some less known electronic dub albums so let's make it Sunday Night In Dub.

There's not much info about Five-H-T, actually long time I thought the artist name was Neurotransmitter Electronic Dub. The album is their only release and one of three releases by London's Hypoxia Records, really "less known", see. Let me add they could as well name theirselves The Roland Roadshow Band because they own all the Rolands from 001 to 999 and are not afraid to use them. Don't ask for their musical style, the cover sez it all.

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Can you steal what's already stolen?

Do you want to know what I was doing last weeks instead of posting tons of albums? I crossed the border to the Wild East, my quest being to find the answer to one serious question on my mind: Can you steal what's already stolen?

Understand, I'm far from idealising what I'm doing here but at least I try to post original material that isn't widely available around the net. I try my best to keep this place cozy and warm with a personal touch. I won't fool you, blogging like this isn't so hard. It only takes me to read through piles of requests and comments, go to the attic, dig in the box, wash my dusty hands, rip and tag, find the covers somewhere, write some short text and post it. In return I get another pile of mail, with smilies and warm thankyous this time.

Then one day my posts started to leak. Some of the records I post here are so rare or outstanding it's easy to track them with the Gugol search engine so I could see them popping up on various forums, download sites and "blogs", mostly of israeli, russian, ukrainian and (it only gets better) belarussian provenience. Since the early days of music sharing blogs I felt proud to be quoted by "older" bloggers, and when I linked their posts, I always did it with taste and respect. Needless to say that these rascals just repack and uploaded my files on filesharing servers with tons of pop-ups and a good cash-for-downloads rewards.

Actually first time around it made me feel sort of proud because the first to go were my own Electronic Colorations compilations (btw still the most dowloaded posts on this blog ;-). Clearly those guys from the wild east mistaken them for real industry releases, with the faux covers and all that jazz. Then the plot thickened and my posts were stolen on daily basis. I tried to fight back.. only to find myself knee-deep in pointless conversations: "How do you knowing this albums is your blog?" "Read the bloody ID3 tag, punk!" Holy mackerel, I even had to threaten certain russian "blogger" with Gugol complaint to stop him from reposting my stuff without any connection to my blog. Seriously how can you communicate with someone who wrote: Will not I understand what is wrong with that? I got in your bloge, and that I pleased me - added to the blog. Humiliating, to say the least.

So instead of posting like crazy I was searching through the forums and sites I could find, downloading my own stuff from exotic servers, tagging the rascal posts as STOLEN in big red lettering and having mindless chats with I.R.Baboons with cultural deficits. Did it help any? Well not that someone would say sorry or remove the links but the theft ratio dropped rapidly - which I'm afraid is mainly a result of the lack of activity on Future Vintage.

There's a brighter side to this - in the past weeks I had enough time to make up my mind what the next discography blog will be. Ladies and gents, meet the new member of my family of blogs - Rising High Records. First I had in mind Talkin' Loud as there's constant demand for older releases of this acid jazz giant, then I realised that I have almost complete collection of Rising High albums (some of the stuff already appeared here with great success). Almost, of course, so expect a want list to appear soon with appeal to help me with the completion. It worked well with The CTI never sleeps, then with A Private Collection, let's see if we can make it again.

Also I started compiling two new volumes of Electronic Colorations, The Vocal Edition and The Ambient Edition should be ready sooner than much later ;-)

Stay tuned!